Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-09-03
NEWS NOTES.

Irish people of Liverpool and the radicals o
London.
Contracts for twelve additional cottages
hospital, and sewerage system for tn,
Soldiers Home at Quincy were awarded
recently by the board of trustees. The ag
gregate cost of these Improvements will b.
S124,076.
Mrs. Warren Edgarton, once widely known
as Julia DAILY, the actress, has died at New
field, New Jersey, of paralysis.
United States Senator Hearst, of Cali
fornia, who is an authority on silver, does not
look for any advance in the price of that meta
in the near future. He thinks President
Cleveland is ''getting his eyes open on the
question"
Of the eleven delegates chosen by district
assembly No. 40, Knights of Labor, to the
general assembly, all but one are opposed to
the Home club and to the Powderly
administration.
Rev. John T. Dobbins, who lives at
Camden, the New Jersey Gretna Green, has
received go, 900 in marriage fees during the
last year and half. Most of his patrons
come from Pennsylvania.
Work on the Red River Valley railroad in
Manitoba is being prosecuted vigorously,
notwithstanding the Injunction. All the
grading will be finished by next Saturday,
Wnen tracKlaylng Will DeS1n.
The will of the late Levi Rosenfeld of
Chicago whose estate j. estimated at about
$3,OOO,OC0, was probated. Public requests
amounting to $500 are made, and the
rest of the property goes to the family, the
share of Maurice Rosenfeld, a son who re-
Gently failed on the board of trade for $780,
90, going to his wife.
Senior Cirilo HoubIe, the alleged Ameri-
can citizen now languishing in Havana
bastile, took out his naturalization papers
only twenty-five days before sailing for
Cuba on a revolutionary mission. The
administration will hardly feel called upon
to interpose in behalf of man who, it is
plain, became an american citizen" only
to facilitate his Vaccinations against
friendly power.
The steamer A. Booth, of Chicago, which
was sunk in Lake Superior last summer and
raised about week ago, was struck by
squat while being lowed into Duluth and
Booth, which cost 100000, can not be raised
again.
The postoffice at Normal, Illinois, has been
burglarized, about 81, 7OO:in stamps and 5000
in money being taken. Two tramps have
been arrested on suspicion of the crime.
The defalcations of Norman Roberts, the
absconding Baltimore banker, reach nearly
half a million dollars, ofwhich almost $780,
co was stolen from the Lorman heirs.
The Republique Francaise believes that the
New Hebrides controversy between france
and England can be easily settled if the lat
ter will confne her demands within reason
able limits.
Mrs. Cleveland will be asked to present
the new flags and the Bennett & Stevenson
medals to the New York fire department
and its medalwinners.
A mass convention of citizens of Illinois
in the interest of the project for ship canal
from the Mississippi river to the lakes has
been called to meet at Peoria October 6.
The trial of the persons implicated in the
Washington county (Texas) election
Irregularities, which were made the subject
of senatorial investigation last winter has
resulted in an acquittal of all the defendants
on one count and disagreement of the jury
the other counts of the indictment.
M. j. Murphy, at present division superin-
tendent of the Erie railway, has been
promoted to the general superintendency of
that line.
By the fall of scaffolding at the new city
hospital in Berlin, six workmen were killed
and several other persons, including the |
badly injured
Ex-Judge Noah Davis has been appointed |
referee to examine members of the firm of |
ii. S. Ives & Co. regarding the disappear
ance of their books.
Twenty-Five hundred quarrymen, at |
Youngstown, Ohio. struck for higher wages. |
Captain James P. Murphy, wealthy
citizen of Kittan1ng, Pennsylvania, was run
over and killed by an express train at that |
place. He was 81 years old.
The London Telegraph commends the
American peace memorial and predicts
that, if successful it will lead to European
arbitration.
The political situation at Sofa continues
chaotic. All the leading men refuse to enter
the ministry, which will be compose of non
entities. The prospects for brilliant or pro-
tracted reing by the new prince are certainly
the reverse of fattering.
1t is said that negotiations will shortly be
opened between Germany and France regard
ng explosions.
Forty liberal members of parliament have
'esolved to support the Irish National league.
twenty other liberal members have written
etters lndorsing the resolution.
The rumor of John Rusk1n's insanity has
been revived at London. The old man is said
% be travelling, but keeps his whereabouts
from his friends.
A well on the Martin farm, near Oil City,
Pennsylvania, which was "struck" June 90
asst, has yielded to date 145, 900 barrels, of
Ill, netting the owner a profit of $9S, 900.
The well is still flowing at the rate of fifty
,arrels an hour.
The Russian government is reported to
AVE warned the Pan-Slavists against invit-
ng General Boulanger to visit Moscow.
Luther A. Furlong, who was arrested by
he sheriff of Lake county, Michigan, under
he impression that he was McGarigle, has
ued that official for $1,000 damages.
The remains of mastodon have been dis
overed on farm near Montpelier, Indiana,
7here similar discoveries had been previous
y made.
Mayor Hewitt has ordered the prosecution
f all hotel keepers in New York who have
lot complied with the 6re-escape law passed
y the legislature at Albany last winter.
Ex-Congressman Gibson, of West Virgin {